Sluggish & Buggish
What is worse than knitting 3 feet of I-cord?
Knitting 4 or 5 feet of it, yes…
It seems 5 can’t hold onto things. (Last week, she lost her snow pants at skool, HUGE bummer! I’m really hoping they turn up soon.) So, knitting all that I-cord seems like a time saver compared to knitting a whole new set of mitts.
The self striping yarn (in some of my favorite colors) came from my Dye-O-Rama swap partner, Monica. (& embroidery done with the same yarn….)
Knit on US 1s & 3s
I plan to line them with some fleece, as soon as I can convince Matt to get my 400lb sewing machine out of storage.
I’ve been patiently waiting for some things in the mail.
Yesterday when I went to the box, I pulled out a heavy parcel. In the short time it took me to see it in the box and pull it out, I had convinced myself that it contained a pipe bomb (heavy, thick, hard, odd shape… paranoid much?) Living on the edge like I do, I decided to pull it out anyhow… Then I recognized the return address to be Anna’s. (And I was pretty dern sure she wouldn’t send a pipe bomb to me.) Therefore, safe to tear into.
Much to my glee and amusement, it was packed, and I do mean packed (!) with post-it notes, memo pads & small notebooks of all shapes and sizes.
This is what 4 pounds of notepads look like (less what the kids made off with.)
Thank you Anna!
I’m so shocked when people actually read this here blog. Let alone pay attention to what I ramble about.
So, on that note, anyone have one of these sitting ’round? (I’ll pay postage!)
Now that you are asleep, or have clicked away it’s time for a bit of political spew.
As many a US citizen is aware, tonight is the megalomaniac’s State of the Union Address. I won’t be watching. (Or perhaps I will, if I want my BP to shoot thru the roof.) Watching the resident megalomaniac is like rubbernecking a train wreck. But, I wanted to make a declaration. For the past few years (since 2000) I have referred to that person (?) as the resident (I don’t quite get the whole respect the office thing….) For seven years that person (?) has tried my patience and compassion. It is insurmountably difficult for me to have compassion for him. Anyway, from this day forward I will no longer be referring to that war monger as the resident, he will be referred to as the squatter.
ITMFA, m’kay? Ahh, I feel better that is off my chest. (Thank Maude that this bill got shit canned.)
That’s all I got.
Oh, wait, I lied! I can see my laundry room floor!! (Aren’t you all proud?)
And aside from trying my best to keep up with housework these days, I’m going to do my best to get my yarn wound for an update this week. It has been at the top of my list for a few days now, right underneath take a shower and take my vitamins. (Guess which one I’ve also been neglecting?)
♥
great idea for the mitts! I need to get one going too.
:-)
January 23rd, 2007 | #
I am guessing vitamins. You may be undermedicated, speaking from one crazy person to another! The yummy mitts look like Good and Plenty candy.
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Love the mitts! I hear you on the i-cord—I did about 6′ of the stuff for a Booga bag and I was going crazy by the end.
January 23rd, 2007 | #
I love the mittens! And the miles of I cord will be worth it’s weight in gold. I will not be watching the state of the Union address either. It’s $2 Tuesdays at the local sport pub.
January 23rd, 2007 | #
call me weird, but i’d almost rather spend the time knitting a spare mitten *just in case* than knit 5 feet of i-cord.
cute mitts!
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Nope. I think we should call him something else.
Squatters are an honorable lot by & large, pippi; I for one have slept in weird places that weren’t mine and sometimes without permission.
But does that make me a Dou*he eating, pig di*k suc*kin’, god-smearin, human gut drinking so-called wannabe pretenda president?
You be the judge.
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Love the mitts!
if you can’t get the sewing machine, send them here and I’ll line them.
xoxo
AV
4.5
NWH
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Well hopefully with all the i cord there won’t be any lost mitts!
I also won’t be watching tonight. I just can’t take anymore of his rambling about nothing. I still can’t figure out how he even got re-elected! I could go on and on and on but I won’t .
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Nope, no State of the Union for me either. I just can’t watch the guy unless it’s a clip on The Daily Show that makes him look like an ass!
I say keep searching that lost and found at school and the snowpants are bound to turn up.
Can I also say that my dishwasher is my favorite appliance? This is the first time in my adult life that I have had one. They’re like magic! I hope one turns up for you, keep checking Craig’s list too.
January 23rd, 2007 | #
I’ve been trying to stay away from politics, the last election almost broke me. But there are times when you read a blog of someone you enjoy and you just say…yes, yes, yes. I have Gilmore Girls recording right now and when the girls are upstairs and asleep….I’ll pour a glass of wine and pick up my knitting and pretend he isn’t there.
I was trying to find some of those clips for my 5 year old’s mittens and gloves! But I bought her 2 pairs of the same gloves at KMart, she’s looking at me like, ma, but these are the same? Granted we still have 4 gloves, but we’ll see how it goes by the end of March!
January 23rd, 2007 | #
At the last broadcast allotted to Prez. Skippy, the one where he announced his “new plan”, my dear husband sat and counted the lies out loud. I think it was 38.
We watched tonight, not hopefully, but with some interest in how many times he’d refer to “the Troops” to glean support. What a schmuck-o.
Nice mittens. Wish I’d had i-cord instead of those durn clips that froze and came open and lost your mittens FOR you.
January 23rd, 2007 | #
Love mittens on a string! I don’t think I could survive 5 ft of I cord. I probably would have doubled the yarn and crocheted a chain.
I stopped watching these things a while ago. Smirks and lies churn my stomach.
I hope I didn’t offend you in my reply to your previous post. I saw it later and thought that it could be read as mean and snarky. Not my intention at all.
January 24th, 2007 | #
They look fabulous! I hope they get a lot of wear.
January 25th, 2007 | #
I didn’t watch, either. I’m glad I didn’t. I can’t stand the sound of his voice.
January 26th, 2007 | #
Squashing grass roots?? Like in *dictatorship*?? I’m going to burst a blood vessel….
Love the mitts though - absolutely adorable!
January 27th, 2007 | #
whenever i have to do icord, i crochet it instead. i hate icord. i guess it isn’t really icord when you crochet it, but it works just fine.
i refuse to watch state of the union. first, i can’t even understand what he is saying. it is sort of like watching someone that doesn’t speak english trying to phonetically pronounce the words, not having any clue what they mean and literally my attention span makes it impossible for me to actually absorb what it is he is saying. and then we mock him so much that we can’t hear. so. blah.
i fear my sewing machine, i have never used it, it was a hand me down from a friend, so i handsew where needed. it would work fine i think for those cute mittens. so cute! and the string is good. i, like your daughter, have a problem with losing stuff if it isn’t attached to me. i clip my keys to my pants or purse or else…poof!
xoxoxo
January 29th, 2007 | #
Oh! I like kt’s husband’s idea…taking off on that, we could just turn the next 720 days of hell into one big drinking game - sipping something that might take the edge off each time a lie tumbles out. Wait. No. I’d be drunk for the next 720 days then and that would surely muck up my knitting.
I Love the term “squatter”, it’s got so much more character than the term i usually use, plus it could be used in public.
~Suz~
January 30th, 2007 | #
Just discovered your blog and did a Craig’s list search for you on a portable dishwasher. Just in case you’re still looking, here’s one that looks like a steal for $15 near you!
http://burlington.craigslist.org/hsh/269156536.html
January 31st, 2007 | #
No TV here, so we were listening on, of all things, my DH’s ham radio, well, because he’s a ham and it seemed only natural to him. So. The doorbell rings in the middle, I open the door, turns out it’s one of his ham radio/Red Cross buddies, and I say, “We’re yelling at Bush.”
And the guy, who you notice was not staying home to listen to that speech, just totally cracks up.
When you feel perfectly safe dissing a politician to someone whose political leanings you know nothing about, knowing they’ll back you up–and they do–that ought to tell Shrub something. (I loved Molly Ivins calling him that. She will be sorely missed.)
February 5th, 2007 | #
Pippi! Don’t knit icord! SPOOLKNIT IT!
Spoolknitting is bliss! Knitting icord makes me crazy.
Love your slippers, too gorgeoso for words!
big hugs
Noreen
February 6th, 2007 | #